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STS-41 (36)
- DISCOVERY (11)
- Pad 39-B (15)
- 36th Shuttle mission
- 11th Flight OV-103
Crew:
- Richard N. Richards (2), Commander
- Robert D. Cabana (1), Pilot
- William M. Shepherd (2), Mission Specialist 1
- Bruce E. Melnick (1), Mission Specialist 2
- Thomas D. Akers (1), Mission Specialist 3
Milestones:
- OPF - May 8, 1990
- VAB - Aug. 27, 1990
- PAD - Sept. 4, 1990
Payload:
- ULYSSES,SSBUV-02,ISAC
Mission Objectives:
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Launch:
- October 6, 1990, 7:47:15 a.m. EDT. Liftoff occurred 12 minutes
after two-and-a-half-hour launch window opened at 7:35 a.m. EDT,
Oct.6. Heaviest payload to date. Launch Weight: 259,593 lbs.
Orbit:
- Altitude: 160nm
- Inclination: 28.45 degrees
- Orbits: 66
- Duration: 4 days, 2 hours, 10 minutes, 4 seconds.
- Distance: 1,707,445 miles
Hardware:
- SRB: BI-040
- SRM: 360Q013
- ET : 39/LWT-32
- MLP : 2
- SSME-1: SN-2011
- SSME-2: SN-2031
- SSME-3: SN-2107
Landing:
- October 10, 1990, 6:57:18 a.m. PDT, Runway 22, Edwards Air Force Base,
Calif. Rollout distance: 8,276 feet. Rollout time: 49 seconds (braking test).
Orbiter returned to KSC Oct. 16,1990. Landing Weight: 196,869 lbs.
Mission Highlights:
- Primary payload, ESA-built Ulysses spacecraft to explore polar
regions of Sun, deployed. Two upper stages, Inertial Upper Stage
(IUS) and a mission-specific Payload Assist Module-S (PAM-S),
combined together for first time to send Ulysses toward out-of-
ecliptic trajectory. Other payloads and experiments: Shuttle Solar
Backscatter Ultraviolet (SSBUV) experiment; INTELSAT Solar Array Coupon
(ISAC); Chromosome and Plant Cell Division Experiment (CHROMEX);
Voice Command System (VCS); Solid Surface Combustion Experiment (SSCE),
Investigations into Polymer Membrane Processing (IPMP); Physiological
Systems Experiment (PSE); Radiation Monitoring Experiment III (RME III);
Shuttle Student involvement Program (SSIP) and Air Force Maui Optical
Site (AMOS) experiment.
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